Mugabe land-grab advice -

The Telegraph - UK ^ | April 5, 2004 | Christopher Munnion

[UnklGene]

Mugabe land-grab advice -

By Christopher Munnion in Johannesburg (Filed: 05/04/2004)

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has begun to export his government's expertise on the most effective methods of seizing farms from white landowners.

A team of Zimbabwean "land redistribution experts" arrived in Namibia yesterday to advise the government of President Sam Nujoma.

Namibia, a sprawling mineral-rich state in south-western Africa, has announced that it will soon start the forcible expropriation of white-owned land for "redistribution to the landless masses".

The government claims that about 4,000 white farmers, most of them of German and Afrikaner descent, own nearly half the arable land in the country.

Mr Nujoma, one of the most faithful supporters and admirers of Mr Mugabe, has said he regards Zimbabwe's land redistribution programme as "a model for Africa".

This is despite the fact that the forced removal of several thousand white farmers from their land has led to the near collapse of the economy, unemployment, starvation, violence and an annual inflation rate of more than 600 per cent.

White farmers in Namibia have said they are prepared to discuss reasonable land redistribution as long as proper compensation is agreed and all dealings are carried out under law.

"We are obviously alarmed that they are taking advice from Zimbabwe," one said.

"The Zimbabwean land grab has been an economic disaster and most of the farms taken over by the government in Harare were simply handed out to the ruling party elite rather than landless people."

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[BlazingArizona]

So when does the delegation from Mesa, AZ, arrive in Harare?

[blackdog]

Nice country estates for the black ruling thugs and their staffs. They keep them for a few years until they discover that the water stops pumping from the well, the fields have produced no food, the farm equipment is either broken or stolen, the windpower/inverter room is not functioning, and the roof is now leaking because nobody repaired it after wind storms. Then they bug out and abandon it.

Funny, what started this was Nelson Mandella in the early to mid 90's. He got himself a beautiful country estate, with bleck servants, guards, groundskeepers, and such. That "Groundforce" team from the BBC Network even did his gardens and patio's. The digs he got and the attention it got sent a wave of keepin up wit da Mandella's as far as other Marxist thugs aspired to obtain. They can't build their own estates with two hundred years of family work, expense, and lives. They just take it and break it.

Almost like public housing projects in American cities.